(n.) The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.
(n.) The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.
Example Sentences:
(1) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
(2) Certain terminologies in vogue add further to the confusion.
(3) The terminology of the pericardial sinuses and recesses has been inconsistent, and the authors propose a nomenclature for standardizing the names of the recesses of the serous pericardium.
(4) The author states the terminology to be used in impedancemetry according to the different probe tone frequencies of the clinical impedancemeters and the different acoustic stimulations systems in order to obtain the acoustico-facial reflex.
(5) After a review of the bibliography on the subject of eccrine sweat gland carcinomas, the authors emphasize the confusing terminology used for the designation of these cases and the difficulties for a correct clinical and histological diagnosis of these tumors.
(6) All specimens were classified using the terminology of Azzopardi.
(7) A review of terminology is undertaken to present the reader with the distinguishing features of the personality disorder versus the anxiety disorder.
(8) The main problems are the lack of a uniform terminology and the fact that there is little unanimity concerning definitions and what may be included under individual syndromic rubrics.
(9) In this part of the chapter we have used new terminology and developed a new system for classification of sleep disorders in children.
(10) Terminology widely used in the nursing literature is clarified and research studies that address the quality of nursing care are reviewed.
(11) Because of the many disciplines involved in treatment, differences in terminology have surfaced.
(12) The terminology "flossing cleft" is suggested by the authors to describe linear or V-shaped interdental marginal tissue deformities that result from dental floss-induced injury.
(13) A desirable terminology, therefore, is one that is familiar to molecular biologists and can facilitate comparisons with other systems--immune, endocrine, nervous--where similar methods and terms are in use.
(14) The terminology indicates the name of the main vessel followed by the name of the recurrent vessel both combined in an adjective.
(15) Based on the clinical and operative findings in sixty-eight knees with acute tears of the medial compartment and cruciate ligaments, a standardized terminology and classification of knee ligament instability is presented.
(16) Terminological ambiguity is discussed, along with the detailed clinical, radiological, and operative presentations of this rare condition.
(17) The flexible design of the thesaurus facilitates frequent revision and addition of new terminology.
(18) A seven-word terminology quiz made up of words from the CUE form was also enclosed.
(19) This report agrees with Loney and Bloem (1987) that there is no consistency in the use of terminology for velopharyngeal function disorders.
(20) To determine mothers' level of comprehension of terminology used by health care providers when discussing the care of a newborn baby.
Thesaurus
Definition:
(n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of a dermatopathology thesaurus with more than 200 different diagnoses, the system allows quick access to diagnostic and patient data and supplies rapid seaching and sorting facilities.
(2) The flexible design of the thesaurus facilitates frequent revision and addition of new terminology.
(3) The thesaurus is built on keywords or key-expressions.
(4) We have previously described a user-interactive rule-based computer program (Dyna-SaurI) designed for dynamic thesaurus integration, and demonstrated its efficacy on integrating dermatological subsets of the MeSH and SNOMED thesauruses.
(5) The most striking example is Icelandic, whose thesaurus hasn't changed much since the 12th century.
(6) A thesaurus has been developed to serve as the integrating unit for the computerized information storage and retrieval system of the Vision Information Center.
(7) It was conformed to and conjugated with the thesaurus in the field.
(8) If I ever got round to writing one, both would have prominent entries in my personal flavour thesaurus.
(9) He's a fearsome creation, a thesaurus of withering insults, with a temperament that can only be measured in degrees of boiling rage.
(10) I finally pull the tire off, and I look at the inside of the tire, and it reads: ‘Matsumoto Tire Company – We Are Obstinacy!’” I mention the tire, because it illuminates the experience of reading Paul Ryan’s brand-new don’t-call-it-a-campaign book, The Way Forward: an hours-long ordeal with an epistemically locked-shut Mad Libs thesaurus accident that ultimately says “screw you” as sunnily as possible.
(11) Maybe it’s constant the job ad “buzzwords” that make you want to tear out all the pages of a thesaurus and papier-mâché them in front of the recruiter.
(12) External formatting by semantic fields allows the physicians to attribute medical expressions dynamically to concepts of the thesaurus.
(13) A thesaurus can be used to define the units in relationship to the examination methods described.
(14) These are literature selection, thesaurus maintenance and indexing.
(15) A hierarchical structure was placed on the terms to produce a thesaurus typical of the sort often used in the indexing and retrieving of documents.
(16) The numerical coding system used in the thesaurus permits seven levels of specificity; this specificity is required for depth of indexing, as well as to limit the retrieval to those bibliographic citations which are relevant to a highly specific search request.
(17) Finally, all of the symptom terms were incorporated into a thesaurus from which the questionnaire was derived.
(18) The original system has been improved to provide a thesaurus processor with added capabilities for expanding search request terms and a newly developed set of search programs with user options that make complex and more accurate retrievals possible.
(19) This paper describes the process of preparing the thesaurus and presents an evaluation of its coverage of the "MEDINFO-86 Proceedings."
(20) Modification of the thesaurus is expected to have a far-reaching impact on the retrieval of information in nursing and allied health.